dRive

Hi ! I'm StefanI ❤️ to talk to - help - improve businesses that like to growI deliver value to entrepreneurs & investors by🎯 translating data into decisions
💡 setting up processes to improve financials
🎉 developing strategies to accelerate growthMy core professional competences 🤓 ...Finance-as-a-Service // SME turnaround management // retail development // e-comm & home delivery expert // building my own tech stack // process digitalisation

dérive (noun): /deɪˈriːv/ (day-reev) - a technique for exploring urban environments that involves wandering aimlessly, allowing oneself to be led by the surrounding environment and the sensations it evokes, to experience the area in a more spontaneous and authentic way.

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What I can do for you, based on your needs.

play with data

CFO services // BI Analytics // Market Reports

develop retail brands

Dev pipeline management // Market launch // Real Estate & GIS analytics // Retail dev consulting // Business plans

launch home delivery solutions

Pricing & Revenue analysis// Digital sales strategy // Process automation

🔥 Turnaround project of a 23M EUR Sales // + 250 FTE Engineering and Industrial projects company 🔥Key achievements:Stabilized Cashflows
Created professional reporting
Optimized Treasury
Implemented operational and financial processes & procedures
Improved their decision making
Created roadmap for future growth and profitability

🔥 Diagnosis and analysis of a cash distressed legal consulting group🔥Key achievements:Past-years performance attribution
Root-cause analysis of current issues
Proposed practical short term and long term strategic solutions
Simulations of future performance

Past experience

2 years at a European PE/VC firmbuilding dealflowleading multiple investment roundsmaking cool valuation models and investment presentationsco-invested in 2 start-ups

6 years of in-depth franchise business experience // Pan-european restaurant group // PE-backed // managing all crucial aspects of the business.Main brands: Burger King // Quick // O'TacosChief Treasury // Head of Development // International Expansion // e-Comm manager

2,5 years as Head of Finance for a London-based Fintech scale-up.SaaS KPI management // Fund raising coordination

Contact

Hi there!Thanks for showing interest 🤓If you want to reach out, send a short message below describing your topic of interest. 📬To keep it simple, I charge either a day rate for recurring assignments or a package rate for one-off projects. Rates depend on duration, complexity and negotiation. 💰

Blog

Dérive

The art of dérive, a wander without aim,
To move through this world, unburdened by fame.
A wander through life, with no set destination,
A dance with existence, a raw celebration.It’s the art of exploring without a rigid plan,
Of letting go, trusting the pull of the land.
Of noticing beauty in chaos and noise,
Of finding calm in the rush, and joy in the void.To dérive through life is to break from routine,
To see with new eyes, the familiar made clean.
To follow a feeling, to take a new turn,
To embrace the uncertain, to let the soul learn.It’s choosing the path that calls out with a song,
Allowing yourself to be gently drawn along.
Finding meaning in moments that just come to be,
Creating a map that’s uniquely just me.In essence, to dérive is to live without fear,
To trust that the road will make itself clear.
It’s breaking free from the plans we contrive,
And letting the world teach us how to arrive.